Claude Brasseur

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Guy de Maupassant

Jean Carmet

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François

Miou-Miou

~ as ~

Gisèle d'Estoc

Simone Signoret

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Maupassant's mother

Véronique Genest

~ as ~

Fanny

Jacques Fabbri

~ as ~

Daremberg

Anne-Marie Philipe

~ as ~

Comtesse Potocka

Daniel Gélin

~ as ~

Gustave

Jean-Yves Gautier

~ as ~

Dorchain

Anne Deleuze

~ as ~

Princesse Polignac